ACADEMIC WORD LIST 2

Most common
Other words in the family
form
achieve achievable, achieved, achievement, achievements, achieves, achieving
acquisition acquire, acquired, acquires, acquiring, acquisitions
administrate, administrates, administrations, administrative, administratively, administrator,
administration
administrators
affect affected, affecting, affective, affectively, affects, unaffected
appropriacy, appropriately, appropriateness,
appropriate
inappropriacy, inappropriate, inappropriately
aspects aspect
assistance assist, assistant, assistants, assisted, assisting, assists, unassisted
categories category, categorisation, categorise, categorised, categorises, categorising, categorizing
chapter chapters
commission commissioned, commissioner, commissioners, commissioning, commissions
community communities
complex complexities, complexity
compute, computation, computational, computations, computable, computed,
computer
computerised, computers, computing
conclude, concluded, concludes, concluding, conclusions, conclusive, conclusively
conclusion
inconclusive, inconclusively
conduct conducted, conducting, conducts
consequences consequent, consequence, consequently
construct, constructed, constructing, constructions, constructive, constructs
construction
reconstruct, reconstructed, reconstructing, reconstruction, reconstructs
consumer consume, consumed, consumers, consumes, consuming, consumption
credit credited, crediting, creditor, creditors, credits
cultural culture, culturally, cultured, cultures, uncultured
design designed, designer, designers, designing, designs
distinction distinct, distinctions, distinctive, distinctively, distinctly, indistinct, indistinctly
elements element
equation equate, equated, equates, equating, equations
evaluate, evaluated, evaluates, evaluating, evaluations, evaluative, re-evaluate, re-evaluated,
evaluation
re-evaluates, re-evaluating, re-evaluation
features feature, featured, featuring
final finalise, finalised, finalises, finalising, finality, finally, finals
focus focused, focuses, focusing, refocus, refocused, refocuses, refocusing
impact impacted, impacting, impacts
injury injure, injured, injures, injuries, injuring, uninjured
instituted, institutes, instituting, institution, institutional, institutionalise, institutionalised,
institute
institutionalises, institutionalising, institutionally, institutions
invest, invested, investing, investments, investor, investors, invests
investment
reinvest, reinvested, reinvesting, reinvestment, reinvests
Academic word list -1- Last updated April 2012
Most common
Other words in the family
form
items item, itemisation, itemise, itemised, itemises, itemising
journal journals
maintenance maintain, maintained, maintaining, maintains,
normalisation, normalise, normalised, normalises, normalising, normality, normally
normal
abnormal, abnormally,
obtained obtain, obtainable, obtaining, obtains, unobtainable
participation participate, participant, participants, participated, participates, participating, participatory
perceived perceive, perceives, perceiving, perception, perceptions
positive positively
potential potentially
previous previously
primary primarily
purchase purchased, purchaser, purchasers, purchases, purchasing
range ranged, ranges, ranging
region regional, regionally, regions
regulate, , regulated, regulates, regulating, regulation, regulator, regulators, regulatory,
regulations
deregulated, deregulates, deregulating, deregulation, unregulated
relevant irrelevance, irrelevant, relevance
resident reside, resided, residence, residential, residents, resides, residing
resource, resourced, resourceful, resourcing
resources
unresourceful, under-resourced
restrict, restricting, restriction, restrictions, restrictive, restrictively, restricts, unrestricted,
restricted
unrestrictive
security secure, insecure, insecurities, insecurity, secured, securely, secures, securing, securities
sought seek, seeking, seeks
select selected, selecting, selection, selections, selective, selectively, selector, selectors, selects
site sites
strategies strategy, strategic, strategically, strategist, strategists
survey surveyed, surveying, surveys
text texts, textual
traditional tradition, non-traditional, traditionalist, traditionally, traditions
transfer transferable, transference, transferred, transferring, transfers

Adapted from Coxhead, A, The academic word list, Victoria University of Wellington, viewed 3 April 2012,
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist.

Academic word list -2- Last updated April 2012